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SMITH v. STATE, DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS

No. S-5336.

872 P.2d 1218 (1994)

Leroy K. SMITH and Denny Bynum, Appellants, v. STATE of Alaska, DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Susan Humphrey Barnett, Commissioner, Palmer Correctional Center, State Board of Parole, Sam Trivette, Director, Board of Parole, David Cooper, Parole Board Member, Donald Bruce, Parole Board Member, Mike Miller, Parole Board Member, Alonzo Patterson, Parole Board Member, and Delores Weiler, Parole Board Member, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

April 29, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ted Stepovich, Stepovich, Kennelly & Stepovich, P.C., Anchorage, for appellants.

Michael J. Stark, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Charles E. Cole, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellees.

Before MOORE, C.J., RABINOWITZ, MATTHEWS and COMPTON, JJ.

OPINION

MATTHEWS, Justice.

Once prisoners serve their sentences taking into account whatever time credits they have accumulated for good behavior they must be released.1 Prisoners who have been sentenced to a term of two years or more are released to the custody of the parole board for a period equivalent to their accumulated good behavior time. This is called a mandatory parole...

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